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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

propel your venture forward. Student i-lab members get access to a range of resources, including one-on-one expert advising, interactive workshops, networking events, funding, and co-working space. Membership is available by semester in... View Details

17 Apr 2022
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How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

employees and lower-level managers to report problems. With customers and investors more attentive than ever to corporate social responsibility, firms that act ethically will have a competitive advantage, Nelson says. “You have more... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors By: Yip, Jeremy, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, Cindy Chan, and Alison Wood Brooks Abstract—Previous research has revealed that expressing gratitude motivates prosocial behavior in cooperative relationships. However, expressing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Interactive Messaging Unit (IMU), the online industry's catalyst for going "beyond the banner" and standardizing new ad formats that dramatically enhanced both the user experience and ad performance. His influence in this evolution earned... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

can take is the "group think" process described by Irving Janis (Janis, 1982). But, of course, the bonding drive is not alone in the human psyche; the drive to acquire will especially unsettle any such cozy equilibrium. The acquiring drive will lead to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities.... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Acquisitions, Value Creation Under Polman's leadership, Unilever focused on long-term shareholder value accretion with a multi-stakeholder approach that emphasized global growth in revenues and earnings through deep penetration in rapidly growing emerging markets and... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marketing Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Eva Ascarza : Received the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring in 2024. Julian De Freitas : Winner of the 2024 Case Centre Outstanding Case Writer... View Details

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

brought on board were also close in a way Shelman found surprising when she spent time with them when researching the case. "There was huge camaraderie evident in the way that the top management team interacted with each other they... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

a PM was created by interactions with others,” he says. When he decided to get an MBA to “learn how to commercialize a clean tech product,” he chose HBS for its general management strengths – and its emphasis on communicating with others.... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Strategy Business Strategy equips you with a simplified framework you can immediately apply to create value for customers, employees, and suppliers while maximizing returns and your organization’s competitive edge. You’ll learn how to... View Details

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

off by disruptive technologies. Critics often argue that Microsoft can't innovate its way out of a paper bag—instead it has used its monopoly position to stamp out competition and force an industry to bend to its standards. But now comes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. See Marco’s other research here ,... View Details

05 Nov 2014
HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

the Interactive Advertising Bureau uses three methods to value the contribution of the advertising-supported Internet to the U.S. economy: Employment value. The Internet employs 1.2 million people directly to conduct advertising and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained dataset from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team performance is positively associated with coaches’ subsequent exercise of racial bias: players... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

initiative with an unlikely acronym: YALP, the Young American Leaders Program. Launched in 2015 out of the School’s US Competitiveness Project and convening every June, YALP brings together 10 leaders from each of 14 cities across the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

also results in the production of higher quality products. In a competitive setting, by adopting buyer-initiated information revelation, firms are able to attain positive profits. This is due to the fact that customers infer the product's... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

"Interactivity isn't just about technology," he says. "It's equally important to build an interactive culture." INCLUSION: In organizational conversation, inclusion means giving employees a chance to help tell a company's story. Ceding a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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